Backend Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Python-based applications.
• Design and optimize SQL queries and databases.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
• Troubleshoot and debug applications.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to team knowledge sharing.

Qualifications and Required Skills

• Strong proficiency in Python programming.
• Experience with SQL and database management.
• Experience with web frameworks such as Django or Flask.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Familiarity with version control systems like Git.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.

Good to Have Skills

• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS or Azure.
• Knowledge of containerization technologies like Docker.
• Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines

About the Role 

As a result of our rapid growth, we are looking for a Java Backend Engineer to join our existing Cloud Engineering team and take the lead in the design and development of several key initiatives of our existing Miko3 product line as well as our new product development initiatives. 

Responsibilities 

•  Designing, developing and maintaining core system features, services and engines
• Collaborating with a cross functional team of the backend, Mobile application, AI, signal processing, robotics Engineers, Design, Content, and Linguistic Team to realize the requirements of a conversational social robotics platform which includes investigate design approaches, prototype new technology, and evaluate technical feasibility
• Ensure the developed backend infrastructure is optimized for scale and responsiveness 
• Ensure best practices in design, development, security, monitoring, logging, and DevOps adhere to the execution of the project. 
• Introducing new ideas, products, features by keeping track of the latest developments and industry trends 
• Operating in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software against aggressive schedules

Requirements 

• Proficiency in distributed application development lifecycle (concepts of authentication/authorization, security, session management, load balancing, API gateway), programming techniques and tools (application of tested, proven development paradigms)  
• Proficiency in working on Linux based Operating system. 
• Proficiency in at least one server-side programming language like Java. Additional languages like Python and PHP are a plus 
• Proficiency in at least one server-side framework like Servlets, Spring, java spark (Java). 
• Proficient in using ORM/Data access frameworks like Hibernate,JPA with spring or other server-side frameworks. 
• Proficiency in at least one data serialization framework: Apache Thrift, Google ProtoBuffs, Apache Avro,Google Json,JackSon etc. 
• Proficiency in at least one of inter process communication frameworks WebSocket's, RPC, message queues, custom HTTP libraries/frameworks ( kryonet, RxJava ), etc.  
• Proficiency in multithreaded programming and Concurrency concepts (Threads, Thread Pools, Futures, asynchronous programming). 
• Experience defining system architectures and exploring technical feasibility tradeoffs (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling)
• Experience developing cloud software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability
• Good understanding of networking and communication protocols, and proficiency in identification CPU, memory & I/O bottlenecks, solve read & write-heavy workloads. 
• Proficiency is concepts of monolithic and microservice architectural paradigms. 
• Proficiency in working on at least one of cloud hosting platforms like Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Azure etc.   
• Proficiency in at least one of database SQL, NO-SQL, Graph databases like MySQL, MongoDB, Orientdb 
• Proficiency in at least one of testing frameworks or tools JMeter, Locusts, Taurus 
• Proficiency in at least one RPC communication framework: Apache Thrift, GRPC is an added plus 
• Proficiency in asynchronous libraries (RxJava), frameworks (Akka),Play,Vertx is an added plus 
• Proficiency in functional programming ( Scala ) languages is an added plus 
• Proficiency in working with NoSQL/graph databases is an added plus 
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git is an added plus 
• Working Knowledge of tools for server, application metrics logging and monitoring and is a plus Monit, ELK, graylog is an added plus 
• Working Knowledge of DevOps containerization utilities like Ansible, Salt, Puppet is an added plus 
• Working Knowledge of DevOps containerization technologies like Docker, LXD is an added plus  
• Working Knowledge of container orchestration platform like Kubernetes is an added plus 

Engineering Manager – Backend

Opportunity in this role / Why should you join us?

Series D funded supply chain startup.

Requirements

• Software engineering experience of greater than or equal to 7 years
• Experience managing a technical team of at least 3 people
• Exposure to consumer facing products
• Strong technical background and ability to contribute to design and review
• Familiarity with our tech stack or an analogous tech stack

Technologies Used

• Web application frameworks : Ktor, Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Java Play, AWS Lambda
• Languages : Kotlin, Java, Ruby, Javascript, Python
• Datastores : PostgreSQL, Aerospike, Redis, DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift
• Communication : HTTP, Amazon SQS, Sidekiq, Amazon SNS
• Server management : Amazon ECS, Docker
• Design frameworks : Domain Driven Design, Clean Architecture, Layered Architecture

Roles and Responsibilities

This role requires a person to drive the engineering of a set of products by aligning with business and product

stakeholders and building and upskilling a team to aid in this. The responsibilities include:

Business and product alignment and planning

• Work closely with business and product stakeholders to understand and align with product initiatives and iterations.
• Help shape the engineering requirement by aligning with the product manager and fleshing out concepts and user flows.
• Formalize business requirements into roadmaps and sprints.

1. Product and system development

• Drive high level modeling and design for projects, also focusing on non-functional aspects, including but not limited to database design, communication protocols, deployment systems, etc.
• Drive adoption of design frameworks like domain driven design, clean architecture, etc., resulting in a robust layered architecture.
• Drive good code review practices, using the review process as a mentoring tool to upskill people.
• Ensure test coverage of systems, partly through unit and integration testing, and partly through blackbox testing by collaborating with the Quality Assurance team, via good testing practices.

1. Project Management

• Drive the execution of the project by delegating tasks effectively.
• Resolve blockers through technical expertise, negotiation and delegation.
• Estimate timelines and ensure adherence to them through effective sync-ups and course corrections.

1. Maintenance

• Formulate SLAs and oversee their adherence for the various systems, effectively tracking issues and performance inefficiencies.
• Performance monitoring and optimization for systems.
• Drive technical re-design, remodeling and refactoring of systems for robustness and sustainability.

1. Team Management

• Typically manage a team of 3 - 6 members and a portfolio of 3 - 6 products.
• Do periodic assessment of reportees, chart their career growth paths and train them.
• Recruit members into the team by collaborating effectively with the recruitment team.

Product Overview

You will be contributing to products concerning both customers and partner drivers. Product sectors

include:

• Growth : You’ll build tools to help boost user growth on the platform including our industry bestdriver on-boarding, training and certification system, referral system, and lead managementmmodels.
• Lifecycle Management : Build tools to help users engage with the platform better, which includes rewards and recognition module, subscription service, account management tools, partner and customer wallets and payout modules, and churn detection systems among others.
• Transaction Experience : You’ll help deliver the most delightful booking experience to our customers and drivers. As part of this team, you’ll be responsible for our core booking system, pricing and payment systems, location tracking and filtering services, fraud prevention systems, and in-app ticketing and support among others.
• Fulfilment : As part of the fulfilment team, you’ll work on systems which ensure high degree of ride fulfilment on the platform. Tools including allocation methodologies and system, dynamic pricing, dynamic partner routing, and partner re-activation tools among others.
• Enterprise Solutions : You’ll help Porter’s enterprise customers achieve delivery excellence. You’ll build tools for contract management, fleet management, fleet and route optimisation tools, alerting and monitoring tools, and analytics suite among others.

This is a fully remote opportunity

About Us:

We at Ascendeum provide Data and AdTech strategy consultation to businesses worldwide. We started our journey with private funding and has been operating profitably since 2015. We are a lean team of 50+ highly productive and smart people spread across various parts of India who have been consistently delivering intelligent solutions that enable enterprise-level websites and apps to maximize their digital advertising returns.

Job Details:

We are looking for an analytical, results-driven Back-end Engineer who holds a passion to troubleshoot and improve current back-end applications and processes. The Back- end Developer will use his or her understanding of programming languages and tools to analyze current codes and industry developments, formulate more efficient processes, solve problems, and create a more seamless experience for users.

Job Responsibilities:

• Compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement.
• Collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
• Developing ideas for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry developments and trends.
• Recording data and reporting it to proper parties, such as clients or leadership.
• Participating in continuing education and training to remain current on best practices, learn new programming languages, and better assist other team
• members.
• Taking lead on projects, as needed.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer programming, computer science, or a related field.
• Solid experience specializing in developing and managing back-end systems for enterprise-grade applications.
• Strong command on Python and databases such as MySQL.
• Strong understanding of the web development cycle and programming
• techniques and tools.
• Focus on efficiency, user experience, and process improvement.
• Excellent project and time management skills.
• Strong problem solving and verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently or with a group.

Responsibilities:

• Setup and integrate various APIs
• Dealing with scripts written in different languages (PHP, Node.js, Python, PhantomJS, Ruby)
• Must be an R & D specialist
• Keep up-to-date with advanced concepts
• Adaptable to learn new technologies
• Knowledge on Linux and its commands
• Fast in debugging the code
• Should be a quick learner
• Good at communication

Requirements

• Minimum 3 Years of experience in PHP7
• 1 Year experience in Node.js/Python
• Good work experience in PHP7 
• Strong knowledge in OOPS.
• Proven knowledge on REST and SOAP API integrations 
• Experience in composer installations
• Strong in Javascript and Node.js concepts.
• Good knowledge of MongoDB and MySql
• Knowledge of versioning tools (SVN/GIT)
• Having knowledge on Amazon AWS and Google Cloud Platform is an added advantage
• Having knowledge of elastic search is an added advantage
• Good to have knowledge on p threads

• Participate in brainstorming and technical ideation for projects with product, growth, and engineering
• You will design Scalable and Fault-Tolerant systems
• You will help Maintain critical and auxiliary systems (databases, cache ...)
• You will build Experiments that help validate hypotheses for the product

Experience:

2+yrs In your first 3 months, you will…

• Successfully onboard and create strong bonds with the current team
• Participate in brainstorming and technical ideation for projects with product, growth, and engineering
• Contribute to existing product features and experimentation

In your first 6 months, you will…

• Develop prototypes of new features or products using rapid iteration and experimentation as we explore new ideas
• Partner across the engineering team to ship features

In your first year, you will...

• Champion best-in-class engineering practices and systems for an emerging engineer team
• Help build a suite of features for the product

Our Ideal Hire:

• Learned best practices and has experienced the challenges and joys working at a startup
• Managed and maintained production code at increasing scales
• Feels strongly motivated by our mission
• Communicates complex problems and proposes solutions, in writing and in conversation

Expertise:

• Proficiency in any one language (ex: NodeJS / Go / Python)
• MySQL (design / indices / optimizing queries)
• Redis (types/ functionality/ use cases)

Hands-on experience:

• Handled scaling issue
• Good at debugging

Good to have:

• Kafka (or other stream-processing software)
• AWS

Do not apply if you are not:

• Ownership driven
• Curious in general
• Able to explain things in simple terms
• Self-motivated
• Use to work in the chaotic environment
• Highly proactive
• Willing to Mentor and humble to ask for collaboration
• Most important, Learn & Grow yourself!
• Hungry to grow anymore

Skyber is a fintech based in Mumbai, India, and is building a connected commerce platform and disruptive Enterprise SaaS with the fundamental of digitalizing, unifying, and streamlining business processes and transactions.

Our flagship platform - Dhanda (https://mydhanda.com">https://mydhanda.com) is live on Play Store and iOS App Store🚀

At Skyber, we are obsessed with our vision to create an ecosystem for Micro, Small, and Medium-sized Business Owners & freelancers of Bharat where we provide them with procurements to payments & enquiry to invoicing platform. Skyber was born out of the need to bring back the focus on these business owners, to empower them so that they can ride along with the technology wave and adopt the phigital way.

To build such a community we require people with the same vision who are working towards making this dream possible for us and for all these business owners.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Developing and maintaining all server-side network components.
• Ensuring optimal performance of the central database and responsiveness to front-end requests.
• Collaborating with front-end developers on the integration of elements.
• Developing high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code.
• Implementing effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions.
• Running diagnostic tests, repairing defects, and providing technical support.
• Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as preparing reports.
• Recommending and implementing improvements to processes and technologies.
• Keeping informed of advancements in the field of Node.js development
• Following an agile framework of development

Who can apply :

Only those candidates can apply who:

1. Are available for full time. Right now the team is working from home but when the situation improves we expect them to come to Office. ( Office is situated in Goregaon, Mumbai )
2. At least 2 years of professional work experience in the field of design along with a strong portfolio demonstrating past work experience.
3. Can join the team on an immediate basis.
4. Have relevant skills and interests.

Perks :

• Flexible work hours
• Informal dress code
• A ticket on our rocket ship to the Moon 🚀

Here’s what you will get if you work with us :

1. Working with a young & dynamic team that constantly tests your thinking and beliefs.
2. No specific work timings. We believe that your work should speak for you and not the time.
3. Constant amusement by Dot (Warning: Apply only if you love dogs) 🐶
4. Occasional doses of Yummy Home Cooked food 😋
5. Homelike Work Environment (We also have a bed if you need to sleep - even though we think you won't get any for a while)